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塞隆尼斯 "Thelonious...
塞隆尼斯·斯费尔 "Thelonious Sphere.
生于1918年，存疑 "born 1918, question mark.
美国爵士钢琴家，作曲家 U.S. Jazz pianist and composer."
你看起来很出名，塞隆尼斯 It appears you're famous, Thelonious.
那是什么意思？ That's what that means?
“对，都列在这儿了，所有的教皇... 'Yeah. They list all the Popes in here..'
还有总统们。” '...and presidents.'
你很出名，然后他们把你放进了，呃.. You're famous, then they put you in-in-in, uh..
放进这本书里 In this book.
好吧，我很出名，那不是很离谱吗？ Well, I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?
生于落基山，北卡罗莱纳，1917年。 Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1917.
1922年搬到纽约 Moved to New York city in 1922
和他的母亲和家庭一起 with his mother and family.
他们60年代在西边定居 They settled in the West 60s
在“圣胡安山”街区 in a neighborhood called San Juan Hill.
钢琴家詹姆斯`P·约翰逊住那儿 The pianist James P.Johnson lived there
还有尤比·布莱克的音乐剧《独自跳舞》 and Eubie Blake's musical, "Shuffle Along"
在一家当地的剧院里上演 opened in a local theater.
圣胡安山那个街区 The streets of San Juan Hill
充满了音乐 were filled with music.
歌手的嗓音 The sounds of singers
钢琴手，还有大乐队 piano players, and big bands
从收音机里飘出来 drifted from home radios
混合着街边的福音音乐 and blended with sidewalk gospel music.
蒙克开始弹钢琴时 Monk began playing the piano
并没有受过正规钢琴教育 without formal training.
后来他才上的课程，并且学习了音乐理论 Later he took lessons and studied music theory
在茱莉亚音乐学院 at the Juilliard School of Music.
但他真正的老师们 But his real teachers
是当时的爵士大师们 were the master Jazzmen of his time..
胖子沃勒 Fats Waller
阿特·塔图姆 Art Tatum
还有艾灵顿公爵 and Duke Ellington.
他17岁时在美国巡演 At 17, he toured the United States
跟随一支福音乐队 with a gospel group.
后来蒙克回到纽约 Monk returned to New York
成为了室内钢琴手 and became the house piano player
在明顿俱乐部 at Minton's Playhouse
那是一场音乐革命 the scene of a revolution in music.
在那儿，有查理·帕克，还有“眩晕”·吉莱斯皮 There, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
蒙克投入其中 Monk joined the revolution.
那场爵士潮流叫做“比波普” It was called "Bebop".
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比波普风头很盛 Bebop got a lot of attention
但蒙克独特的影响 but Monk's unique contribution
当时并没有被重视 was largely unrecognized.
知道他的人很少 He was known by very few.
其中一位是伟大的萨克斯风手 One who knew was the great saxophonist
科尔曼·霍金斯 Coleman Hawkins.
1944年，霍金斯雇佣了他 In 1944, Hawkins hired him
然后蒙克录了自己第一张专辑 and Monk made his first record.
那时蒙克已经写出了 By that time Monk had already
很多他最重要的作品 composed many of his major works.
他写了很多曲子 He wrote many more
永久地改变了爵士乐的语言 and the language of Jazz was changed forever.
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查理·劳斯：“比波普..有时候也是个奇怪的词。 [Charlie Rouse] 'Bebop.. That's a strange word sometimes, too.'
“他是个音乐家 'He was a musician.'
当音乐风格改变，他们就称之为比波普。“ When the music changed, they just called it Bebop.
但是，呃，塞隆尼斯就像个奠基者 But, uh, Thelonious was like a founder.
他是那个... He was the f..
就像，他打下了基石 Like, he laid down the foundation.
他是个钢琴手 He was the piano player.
他写的很多作品现在都成了经典 A lot of his compositions is classics now.
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哈利·科隆比（蒙克的经纪人）：他认为自己是摩登的 [Harry Colomby narrating] He saw himself as modern.
他喜欢用”摩登“这个词 He liked to use the word "modern".
一个摩登爵士乐手 A modern Jazz player.
听那种音乐的黑人 Blacks who were listening to that music
见识了一种表达，表现了独立、 saw an expression of independence
表现了骄傲和力量 and pride and strength.
塞隆尼斯·蒙克正是其代表 Thelonious Monk just represented that.
黑色革命最早的范例 The earliest example of the black revolution..
关于黑人的，嗯，崛起，在某种意义上... ...of a black, uh, uprising, in a sense
体现在音乐里，体现在比波普时期 was in music, was in the Bebop period
那批音乐家并不努力试图.. where the musicians weren't obviously
取悦听众 trying to please an audience
而是演奏属于他们自己的音乐 but they were playing their music their way.
那真的是一种独立的表达 It was a real independent expression.
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这是我收集的 Here's what I gathered..
他的音乐在那时属于非正统 That his music at the time was unorthodox.
并不受欢迎。呃.. It wasn't popular. Uh..
他的专辑真的卖不动 His records really weren't selling.
他更像个地下角色 He was more an underground figure.
他当时也被说成是 He was also a man
据说是个不靠谱的人 about whom stories about unreliability were circulating.
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电视直播是最吓人的媒体了 Live television is the scariest medium of all
成千上万的人在看 because it's millions of people.
如果你犯傻或迟到 If you're going to act silly or be late
所有人都看得到 it's going to be a glaring omission.
我记得我非常，非常紧张 I just remember being very, very nervous.
他落座，开始弹奏 He sat down and he played
我感到了十足的专业性 and I was aware of a real professional.
那就是他，有什么好紧张的？ There he is. What's there to be nervous about?
他在那儿 He's there.
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我记得在回去的路上 I remember, though, on the way back
他有点生气，对贝西伯爵 he was a little pissed off at Count Basie.
他说贝西伯爵一直盯着他看 He said Count Basie kept looking at him.
弹琴的时候，盯着他看。 ...looking at him while he was playing.
他当时在弹琴 He was at the piano.
不知为何，感觉很受影响 And that somehow bothered him.
他说：”下次轮到他上台弹琴， He said, "The next time he plays somewhere
我也要盯着他看。“ I'm gonna look at him."
当时在纽约工作 To be employed in New York
你需要有执照 you needed a Police Card or Cabaret Card.
如果我想成为职业乐手 If I wanted to be a musician
我就得去警察局 I'd have to go to the police
留下我的指纹记录，领取执照 put my fingerprints down, and get my card.
我会一直持有那个执照 That card would be in my possession
直到我犯罪被捕位置。 until I committed a crime.
然后那执照就被吊销了。 Then that card would be removed.
他的执照就被吊销了。 He had lost his.
他的朋友巴德·鲍威尔出城去 His friend Bud Powell was leaving town
让他一同开车去机场 and asked him to drive with him to the airport.
他们被拦停了 They made a stop
然后鲍威尔出去，回来时带着一些毒品 and Bud Powell got out, got back in with some drugs.
警察看到他们把一些东西 The cops saw whatever they had
丢出了车窗 flying out the window.
谁丢的？塞隆尼斯·蒙克 Who threw it out? Thelonious Monk.
他就这样被抓了，被定罪了。 So he was arrested and convicted
判了，我想想，90天。 and got, I think, 90 days.
他说他从不吸毒，他是无罪的。 He said he never used. He was not guilty at that time.
那时的警察，50年代，可能更早一些.. The police then.. in the fifties, maybe earlier..
他们最喜欢抓爵士乐手 their favorite targets seemed to be Jazz musicians.
那时有些城市非常不友好。 There were some cities that were outright unfriendly
我觉得他深受其扰 and I think that bothered him.
他宁愿呆在纽约。 He'd rather stay in New York.
在那段时期 During that period
在他申请执照的过程中 in the process of getting his card.
我在第三大道发现了这家小酒吧。 I found this little bar on 3rd avenue
名字叫”五点“ called "The Five Spot".
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他将在那儿演出五六个月 And he was going to appear there five, six months..
只要一直有听众过来听 As long as crowds were coming in
我们做到了 and-and we did that.
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反响非常热烈 The response was staggering.
那么多年积累的压力 The pressure's been building all these years.
突然间你就摆脱了 Suddenly you take it off
所有那些灵光乍现出来 and all that stuff comes out.
那就是你所感觉到的，那就是他的演奏 That's what you felt. That's how he played.
他真是太棒了 He was just great.
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所有来客都爱上了他的音乐 Whoever came loved what they heard.
我觉得塞隆尼斯终于被承认了 I felt Thelonious was vindicated
因为一直以来 because all this time
他作为一位艺术家，他的艺术 he had been an artist that had never had his due
从未被认同 in terms of recognition
变化就是从那时起开始发生的 and here was a beginning of that changing.
自然而然地，开始有电话打过来邀约 There were phone calls for engagements, of course.
我们现在可以宣称 We were now lucky enough to say
我们现在不出城 we don't go out of town right now
在签这个合约之前 while before this engagement
我们会考虑周全 we would have considered anything.
我尽可能地在街上那么做 I do that on the street if I can.
有人那么做了 Somebody else do that
他们让他穿上瘦身夹克 they put him in a strait jacket.
我说：“噢，那时塞隆尼斯·蒙克，他真离谱。” I say, "Oh, that Thelonious Monk, he's crazy."
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谢谢 Thank you.
喝彩不断 The applause comes anyway.
你好，伙计们 Hello, guys.
今天过得如何？ How you doing today?
嘿，我之前来过这个工作室 Hey, I was in this studio once before.
那真是好年头 That was a good year.
提奥·马切罗：“嗨” [Teo Macero] 'Hey!'
我们怎么样？你感觉怎么样，伙计？ How we doing? How you feel, man?
嗨，伙计，在搞什么？ Hey, man. What's cookin'?
那是啥？你搞了个新帽子？ What's that? You got a new hat?
呃，噢，是的， Uh...oh, yeah,
在波兰有人给我的 this was given to me in Poland.
- 波兰吗？ - 对。 - Poland? - Yeah.
嗨，拉里。 Hey, Larry.
查理·劳斯在吗？所有人都在吗？ Is Charlie Rouse here? Everybody's here?
大本在那儿？ Where's Big Ben?
那是我要问的 That's what I want to know.
你们来的真及时 You guys came on time.
所有人都来了，只是晚了半小时 Hell, everybody's here.. Only half an hour late.
劳斯：宝贝！抱着，就像圣诞礼物那样 [Rouse] 'Baby! Hold it like it's a Christmas present.'
[laughing]
嗨，查尔斯 Hey, Charles.
你好，T。你怎么样？ Hello, T. How you doing?
不错 Doing great.
提奥！ Teo!
嗨 Hey.
再来一遍，提奥 Play that again, Teo.
提奥！ Teo!
行，伙计 Yeah, man.
我们应该始终守时 We're always supposed to be on time.
我打了赌 I made a bet.
伙计，让我看看眼镜 Man, let me see the glasses.
噢，我要跳舞 Oh, you're jivin' me.
噢，伙计 Oh, man.
劳斯：我喜欢那个，我喜欢 [Rouse] I like that. I like it.
提奥：眼镜！ [Teo] 'The glasses!'
哪里买的？我也要来一副 Where can I get another pair like that?
我也想要一副 'I want to get a pair.'
现在我能看清了 Now I can see.
那里面有东西吗？ Have you got anything in them?
我跟你说...太搞笑了 I tell you...that's funny.
你是说它是隐形的？ You mean it's invisible?
我戴了副隐形眼镜，没错 I got invisible glasses on. That's right.
只是草稿，对吗？ Just little sketches, right?
对，我写了4小节东西 'Yeah. I write down four bars or something.'
你知道，你写了4小节 You know, you get four bars done
待会可以弹一些 you can play later on.
你知道，我有一个月没见你了 You know, I haven't seen you for a month.
从Vanguard那场之后 Since-since the vanguard.
对，没错 Yeah. That's right.
时间过得真快 So the time flies.
我变老了 I'm getting older.
你变年轻了 You're getting younger.
你那么说真贴心 It's good of you to say that.
我在听 I'm hearing now.
你开口前我就听到了 Heard you before you said it.
让我们看看 Let's see something..
今天来看一点自由形式的东西 Let's see some free form things today.
自由形式，嗯？ Free form, huh?
什么？你是说，呃，就像，呃.. What, you mean, uh, like, uh..
迪克西兰？（20年代爵士乐曲风） ...Dixieland?
提奥：不，不，不，不 [Teo] 'No, no, no, no.'
让它在不同的调子上哀嚎 'Let it wail in different keys.'
我想让它尽量简单，人们可以从中挖出点什么，然后... I want it easy as possible so people can dig it and then..
...然后同样很棒. ...and still be good.
我的歌就像是.. My songs are like that..
很简单，你知道。 It's easy..you know.
旋律和时间，没问题 The melody and the time, it's alright.
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提奥：“蒙克” [Teo] 'Monk?'
让我们来一首认真的，我们都准备好了。 'Let's-let's really do one. We're all set.'
嗯？ Huh?
来一首 'Let's do one.'
我们跑一遍 We were running it over.
为什么停下来？ Why you stopping us for?
干 Shit.
没必要从来一遍 Not necessary to start over.
现在我们到哪儿了？ Now, where was we at, huh?
我们到哪儿了？ Where was we at
在我们被打断之前？ before we were so rudely interrupted?
那段贝斯独奏再来一次 Trying out that bass solo.
一段还是两段？你觉得呢？ One or two, however you feel.
查理·劳斯：我们开个头，做一个版本 [Charlie Rouse narrating] We'd start out and we'd do a take.
通常我们会选第一遍的版本 Usually, we'd take the first take.
有时候也用第二遍的，但是从不用第三遍的 Sometimes the second, but never the third.
他说，头一次演奏 He'd say once you play it the first time
总是最有感觉的 that's the way the feeling is.
之后你就开始走下坡路了 After that, you start going downhill.
所以，呃，就好像，那很有挑战性 So, uh, it's more like a challenge when you do that.
你知道，呃... You know that, uh..
你必须在第一、二遍演奏的时候不出错 ...you got to play it correctly the first or second take
要不然就完了。他无论如何都会接受的 or that's it. He would take it anyhow.
如果你搞砸了，好，那就完了 If you mess up, well, that's it.
你知道，那都怪你 You know, that's your problem.
你下半辈子都只能听你犯的错 You have to hear that all the rest of your life.
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提奥：请准备 [Teo] 'Stand by, please.'
你都搞定了？ You get all that done?
全都是你弹的？ You play all that?
嗯？ Huh?
我想听听怎么样 I'd like to hear how that sounds.
“我们还在这儿搞声音 'We're still fooling with the sound in here.'
我们先做一首，回头再重放它 Let's make one, then we'll play it back.
为什么所有人都不按我说的做？ Why does nobody want to do what I ask them to do?
我想先演奏那首，然后是其他曲目。 I asked to play the song first before that other jive.
”继续排。我们会录一些“ 'Keep rehearsing. We'll tape some.'
我想听听看怎么样 I wanted to see how it sounds.
你每次都在自己的乐器上排练 You rehearse every time you play on your instrument.
你应该知道，一个萨克斯风手 You should know that.. A saxophone player.
我觉得他没录那一段 I don't think he taped that one.
他说他整准备录 He said he was going to.
”我说我们来练一首“ 'I said we were gonna make one.'
”你说你想排练“ 'You said you wanted to rehearse.'
我啥都没说 I didn't say anything.
我什么都没说，一个字都没说 I didn't say shit. I didn't say nothing.
那么，我们能听一下吗？ Well, can we hear what that sounds like?
”我们没录“ 'We didn't record it.'
提奥：请准备 [Teo]'Stand by, please.'
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有个叫巴里·法瑞尔的人 [Columby narrating] Somebody named Barry Farrell
就像《时代》之前保证的那样 exacted a promise from the Time people
帮塞隆尼斯拍封面照 to do a cover on Thelonious Monk.
我头一次听到的时候不相信 When I first heard I didn't believe it.
第一次见面，呃，和巴里 The first-first meeting, uh, with Barry
是在晚上，嗯，我想不起来几月了 was in the evening, and, uh, I forgot the month.
总之我们在那，第一次会面 But we were there. It was the first meeting.
”你好，我是巴里，我来拍封面照片“ "Hello. I'm Barry. I'm doing the cover."
”我是塞隆尼斯·蒙克“。好，我是你的封面人物” "I'm Thelonious Monk. Ok, I'm your cover subject."
从那时起，我发现某种开端 And on the way down, I noticed the beginning
奇怪举动的开端 of a period of..of..of strange behavior.
只是那时机。。你知道 The timing was just.. You know
每年会发生几次 a couple times a year that would occur.
我发现了，我很害怕 And I noticed that and I was terrified.
如果在那房间里被发现 If that was spotted in the room
封面就吹了 that cover would be blown.
所以我和他一起 So I went up with him.
只有蒙克、巴里，和我 It was just Thelonious Monk, Barry Farrell, and myself
在那间阴暗的收音机城办公室 in this dark Radio City office.
巴里说：“你好，听听这张专辑 Barry said, "Hello. Listen to this record
”和比尔·埃文斯演奏的《午夜时分》 "with Bill Evans playing 'Round Midnight.
你觉得怎模样？“ What do you think?"
我观察蒙克的举动 I was watching Thelonious Monk's behavior
逐步的，你知道，逐渐地 progressively..you know, getting progressively..
嗯，当时并不明显 uh, it wasn't obvious yet.
对我是挺明显的，事情在变坏 It was, to me, obvious it was going to get bad.
我不知道会持续多久 I didn't know how long it would take.
有人发现了某事，这太令人抓狂了。 I was just so paranoid about someone spotting something.
我记得他站起来，看着窗外 I remember he got up, looked out the window,
然后他有点苗头了，但是没有被发现 and he stared a little bit, but apparently it wasn't spotted.
那时他和我一起下楼 By the time he got downstairs with me
他，呃，非常孤僻 he was, uh, very withdrawn.
他已经走神了 He was already off somewhere.
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人们对他做的事 Things that people would do to him
他都憋在心里 he would just internalize them
他们会转化成 and they would manifest themselves
巨大的抑郁和忧虑 in tremendous fits of depression and euphoria..
一种严重的精神分裂 A very schizophrenic type thing.
当这种情况发生时 And when this would happen
在特定的时机，对，我们只能送他去住院 on certain occasions, yeah, we had to hospitalize him.
他一般会，嗯.. He would generally, uh..
封闭，内向 ...close up.. introvert.
然后又会兴奋 And then...he would get excited.
就像我说的，这大概会持续4天 And he may, you know, like I say, pace for four days
差不多就这样 something like that.
他最终会筋疲力尽 Then eventually he would get exhausted.
就是这样，你知道，嗯.. So it was, you know, uh..
很难描述这是怎样变化的 It's hard to say how it moved.
那很复杂 It was very complex.
他是个很复杂的人 He was a very complex individual.
准备好 Ready to go.
走 Go.
♪ Don't you know that it's getting closer ♪
不是吗？ Ain't it?
我有事告诉你 I got something I want to tell you.
我猜他们是从50s年代中期的某个时候开始的 I guess they started somewhere in the mid-fifties
但是，呃，不是那样 but, um, they didn't..
第一次我不确定 I'm not sure the first time
塞隆尼斯为他们进医院 Thelonious spent any time in the hospital for them.
我不认为发生过 I don't think that happened.
我不记得60s之前发生过 I don't recall that happening until the sixties
直到，嗯，60s年代中后期 till the, uh, mid to late sixties.
但我妈告诉我她曾看到了征兆 Uh, but my mom told me that she saw the signs of it
在很早的时候 much, much earlier.
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大部分人避之不及，那是其一 Most people run from it. That was the one thing
奈丽不让我们那么做 Nellie wouldn't allow us to do that.
我很想躲避开 My tendency was to run from it.
我不知道发生了什么 I didn't know what was going on.
那很令人困扰 It's a startling thing
当你看着你父亲的眼睛 when you look your father in the eye
你知道他认不出来面前的人是谁 and you know he doesn't exactly know who you are
你一点也不想面对这样的事情 and you tend to not want to face that at all.
你想假装没有事情发生 You want to act like this is not happening.
但是我母亲让我清醒地认识到 But my mother clearly let me know
那是我们的责任 that it was our responsibility
照顾好他，就像他曾经照顾我们一样 to look out for him the way he did for us
他总是尽可能照顾我们 every minute he was able to.
她坚信不疑 [Columby narrating] She was trusting.
她是个绝佳的伙伴 She was a terrific friend.
伙伴，完全的信任和可靠 A friend. Total trust and dependence.
那时候，她刚在那家医院做过手术 She was operated on at that time and was in the hospital
而他非常非常紧张 and he was very, very tense..
真的非常紧张，躁动 ...really very tense and unsettled.
但是他仍然在工作 But he was working on that tune at that time.
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我不知道 I don't know..
如果没有奈丽在他身边 ...if he would have made the strides he made musically
照顾生活的方方面面 had there not been a Nellie for him
他还能否在音乐上取得那些成就 to cover the other bases
奈丽的爱包容了一切 and-and have it all wrapped n love at the very same time.
小塞隆尼斯：她真的在所有人之前明白了 [Thelonious Jr. narrating] She actually understood before anyone else around him..
那时他们都是青少年 ...back when they were teenagers..
她明白让这一切成长所要付出的代价 She understood what it would take to allow this to grow.
劳斯：奈丽就好像他的右手 [Rouse narrating] Nellie was like his right hand, you know.
她会告诉他 She would tell him what to..
你知道，“你今天穿这件”，类似的事 You know, you should wear this today, or whatever.
她看起来非常照顾他 And she looks.. looking after him, whatever
你知道，饮食、等等一切事情。 You know, food and everything.
对，他们彼此非常亲近 Yeah, they were very, very close together.
我觉得他不会... I think he wouldn't..
没有她在路上，他就会迷路 He'd be lost without her out on the road.
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鲍勃·琼斯：我们组了8人乐队去巡演 [Bob Jones narrating] We had sold a tour based on an octet.
乐队的难题在于 The complication with the octet
只有蒙克有乐谱 was that Monk had the music.
在我们搞清楚音乐的走向之前 And before we could figure out what to do musically
我们必须等待 we had to get a hold of this.
蒙克从不事先告诉我们 Monk never gave it to us
直到我们上了飞机 until we got on the plane.
我记得我去头等舱 I remember going up to first class..
奈丽和蒙克在那儿 Nellie and Thelonious were there..
我就说：“你得给我乐谱” and I said, "I need the music.
“乐手们需要知道我们要演奏什么” "The guys have to see what's going on.
“别担心，会还给你的” Don't worry. You'll get it back."
我们把乐谱拿回来 We brought it back, and it was distributed
发给后排的乐手们 to the musicians in the back
我们5个人一路上就在抄谱，直到我们飞到伦敦 so all five of us copied the music all the way to London.
我们就要在伦敦降落了 We were going to arrive in London
当晚就要演出 and play the same evening.
这一切肯定让他很紧张 It had to be nerve-racking to him how this would happen.
给他啤酒 Given his Druthers
这个人再也不会离开纽约了 this man would have stayed in New York, period.
那就是结束 That would be the end of it.
[instrumental music]
保持 Hold it.
[whistling]
[applause]
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他肯定在想这肯定一开始就错了 [Columby narrating] He must have thought that it got off on the wrong foot
永远也纠正不回来了 and it was never going to get back.
我知道他很紧张 I know he was nervous
担心乐队的人数 about the number of people we had.
他肯定觉得我们铜管组还不太够 He must have thought there weren't enough horns.
除非有人超常发挥 Unless somebody really worked on the charts
否则铜管组听起来会不对劲 they wouldn't sound right.
雷：开头怎样？乐队开始了吗？ [Ray] 'How's this start? Does the band start?'
- 呃，乐队开始。 - 乐队开始了 - Uh... band starts. - 'The band goes.'
本，你演奏什么？4小节？8小节？ What do you play, Ben, four bars, eight bars?
本演奏... Does Ben play..
我演奏引子 I play an introduction
然后我让他演奏一个引子 then I let him play an introduction
然后劳斯会和我们一起演奏 and then Rouse will play it with us together..
大概2遍，你知道，一个和声 About two times, you know, a chorus
然后乐队加入 then the band comes in.
对 Yeah.
准备好了？ Ready?
嗯 Hmm.
[laughing]
[piano music]
[instrumental music]
次中音萨克斯 Tenor saxophone.
[saxophone playing]
中音独奏 Alto solo.
雷？ Say, Ray?
嘿，你知道..你跟着劳斯 Hey, you follow..You follow Rouse.
雷：你想让我跟劳斯？ [Ray] You want me to follow Rouse?
塞隆尼斯：对的，没错 [Thelonious] 'Yeah, that's right.'
太难了..完全被你说中了， It's tough..It's exactly what you said.
铜管组不够 There's horns missing.
- 那是前一半。 - 一半，不是那时候 - That's the first half. - Half, not the time.
后一半.... The second half..
呃，呃... Uh-huh.
我们要怎么重复3 遍？ How we going to do it three times?
一样的。第二遍要上去 Same way. Go up the second time.
一共有6遍 There'll be six times.
6遍？ Six times?
会更低一点 It's going to be lower..
噢 Oh.
中间，然后高上去 Medium, and then high.
每次都是全部16小节！ The whole 16 bars every time!
对，不是8小节 Right, instead of eight bars.
这样啊！ Ah so!
我挖掘，我知道他在干什么 I dig. I see what he's doing.
慢，很慢，但是很坚定 Slowly, slowly but surely.
[piano music]
华彩的顺序有什么安排吗？ Any preference for solo order?
我们这样可以吗？ The way we did it alright?
查理第一个？ Charles first?
呃，对，他第一个。 Uh, yeah, he plays it first.
我们会想明白下面谁上，好吗？ We'll figure out how who's going, okay?
当你发现一个好的切入点 When you see a nice place to go in
就选好你的位置开始演奏 you pick your spot to blow.
选好 Pick it.
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约翰尼·格里芬 Johnny Griffin.
我记得观众都陷入了疯狂 [Columby narrating] I remember the audience went crazy.
他们全都...他们被震住了 They were just.. they were stunned,
他也被震住了 and he was literally stunned himself
被观众们的反应 by the audience reaction to this
以及突然发现 and suddenly discovered
“好，耶，我是说，我们成功了” "Well, yeah. I mean, it's all working.
“我们不会演砸了” It's not going to be the disaster."
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我们想要你的签名 We would like to have your signature
如果你愿意。我们全都，啊.. if you would. We all, uh..
如果你可以 If you please can do it.
噢，塞隆尼斯·蒙克 Oh, Thelonious Monk.
非常，非常感谢你 I thank you very, very much.
非常感谢你 Thank you very much.
不必客气 You're welcome.
鲍勃·琼斯：他们第一次去世界巡演的时候 [Bob Jones narrating]When they went on the first world tour
他们从日内瓦去澳大利亚 they went from Geneva to Australia.
在澳大利亚，海关发现 And in Australia, customs found
他们包里全是空的可乐瓶子 all these empty coke bottles in their bags.
空的可乐瓶子 Empty coke bottles..
还超重了，他们付了超重行李费 And overweight, they paid overweight.
他们很生气 The people were furious.
“你为什么带那么多空可乐瓶子？” "Why do you have these empty coke bottles?"
奈丽说：“我们要把它们带回去” Nellie said, "We're taking them back."
你好吗？ How are you?
- 格雷西和你在一起吗？ - 啊？ - Is Gracie with you? - Huh?
不在吗？格雷西没有和你一起？ No? Gracie with you?
奈丽？ Nellie?
噢，没错，她在那儿 Oh, yeah. She's over there.
噢，是的 Oh, yes.
你从来不独自呆在家，对吗？ You never stay home alone, huh?
从不 No.
你喜欢和蒙克来这儿旅行吗？ You like to travel with Mr. Monk here, huh?
是的 Yes.
- 是吗？ - 噢，是的 - Yes? - Oh, yes.
你了解我 You know me.
我了解你，没错 I know you, yes.
我也了解他 And I know him.
塞隆尼斯！ Thelonious!
塞隆尼斯·蒙克 Thelonious Monk.
[piano music]
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你在哪儿买的这些？ Where you buy those?
-“那是啥？” - 那些神经病裤子 - 'What's that?' - Those crazy pants.
哥本哈根，丹麦的 Copenhagen. Danish ones.
给我讲讲丹麦 Tell my mama Denmark.
格里芬：时髦，时髦 [Griffin] 'Sassy. Sassy.'
厉害的混蛋 Some bad motherfuckers.
“是的，没错” 'Yeah, that's right.'
“走” 'Go.'
我们最好离开这儿 We better get out of here.
我们全都完成了 We finished the whole thing.
旅行结束了 The trip is over.
本以为他会一路上都骑着我们 Thought he was going to ride us all the way..
我们勇往无前，对吗？ ...we're straight ahead, right?
有鸡肝和米饭吗？ Have you got chicken livers and rice?
鸡？ Chicken?
鸡肝 Chicken livers.
鸡肝 Chicken liver.
好像没有，先生 I don't think we have it, sir.
请稍等 Just a second, please.
我们有鸡肉沙拉，先生 Chicken salad we have here, sir.
你喜欢鸡肉沙拉或者鸡肉...鸡肉？ You like chicken salad or chicken..chicken?
或者鸡肉沙拉？ 'Or chicken salad?'
有肝脏吗？ How about just liver?
- 肝脏，有的。 - 搭配什么？ - 'Liver. Yeah.' - And what goes with it?
- 牛肝 。 - 啊，这 - 'Veal liver.' - Uh-huh.
服务生：牛肝搭配土豆 [male waiter] 'Veal liver with potatoes..'
法式炸土豆，或者土豆泥 'French fried potatoes or mashed potatoes.'
- 土豆泥。 - 土豆泥，好的 - 'Mashed potatoes.' - 'Mashed potatoes, yeah.'
他端着你的食物进来 He's coming in with your food.
为您上菜，先生 Here you are, sir.
好 。你准备起来了，是吗？ Alright. You're going to get up though, aren't you?
冰在哪儿？你没有给我冰 Where's the ice? You didn't bring no ice.
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你工作中哪方面更重要？ What is more important in your work
演奏还是谱曲？ playing the piano or composing?
两样都做 I do both.
[德语] 两者同样重要 Beide sind gleich wichtig..
[德语] 谱曲和演奏 componieren und klavierspielen.
蒙克先生，你总是戴不同的帽子 Mr. Monk, you always wear different hats and caps
在舞台上 in your concerts.
帽子对你的音乐有影响吗？ Do they have an influence in your music?
没有 No.
这是个好问题 That's a good question.
也许它们会影响我，只是我不知道。 Maybe they do. I don't know.
你觉得钢琴的88个琴键够用吗？ Do you think the piano has enough keys..88?
你想要琴键更多还是更少？ Do you want more or less?
呃，我是说，弹奏这88个琴键是一项艰苦的工作 Uh, I mean, it's hard work to play those 88.
我在房间里，奈丽也在，后台。 I was in the room, Nellie was in the room.. Backstage.
一个记者进来 A reporter came in
问他喜欢哪种音乐 and asked him what kind of music he liked.
塞隆尼斯：“我爱所有的音乐” And Thelonious, "I like all kinds of music."
完美的毫无瑕疵的答案 Perfectly legitimate answer.
记者又说：“你喜欢乡村音乐吗？” Then the reporter said, "Do you like country music?"
塞隆尼斯没有回答他 Thelonious didn't answer him.
记者又说 Then the reporter said,
“呃，那个，你喜欢乡村音乐吗？” "Uh, well, do you like country music?"
塞隆尼斯看着我说 Thelonious looked at me and said
“我觉得这家伙听力有点问题” "I think the fellow's hard of hearing."
[pipe-organ music]
Uh-1, uh-2..
[playing"I Mean You"]
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实在 Solid.
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怎样？嘿，伙计 What's up? Hey, man.
走开，我在拍照 Get away from him. I'm taking his picture.
最近如何？ How you been, man?
不错，很棒 Well, I dig it.
你最近如何？你看起来不错 How you doing? You look great.
最近如何？ How you doing?
很棒，伙计 Great, man.
对，但是快到月底了 Yeah, but towards the end of the month
我会很忙，你懂的 I'll be busy, you know.
要到处跑 I'll be going everywhere
但是我不知道我在这儿要干什么 but I don't know what I'll do here.
[cheering]
- 感觉怎么样？- 不错 - How are you feeling? - Alright.
很好 Good.
你今晚看起来很棒 You're looking your best tonight.
噢，这是件旧衣服 Oh, this is an old suit
那么，好吧，这件旧衣服 and, well, it's an old suit here.
看上去仍然很棒 Still looks pretty good.
我没穿我的新衣服 I don't wear none of my new shit.
我能看出来这是崭新的 I can tell it's brand-new.
尼卡：“嘿，送你一件礼物” [Nica] 'Hey, I got a present for you.'
一百万美元？ Million dollars?
- 不是。- 噢。 - No. - Oh.
不是，这儿，这儿 Not quite. Here. Here.
它是，是一支笔，你知道 It's a.. It's a marker, you know.
签名用的？ Is this to sign autographs?
尼卡：“不是，它是...” [Nica] 'No. It's a..'
我从来不带笔 I don't never carry no pen..
一支签名用的笔 'A marker for your autographing.'
我不喜欢带笔 I don't like to carry a pen on me.
你会喜欢的，那才是重点 'You will. That's the point.'
知道我为啥不带笔吗？ That's why I haven't gotten a pen.
节约体力 Saves energy.
尼卡：“你是时候拥有一支喜欢的笔了” [Nica] 'This time you can have a pen you do like.'
我给你拿点纸 'I'll grab some paper for you.'
假的吧，是真的？ Is that jive, or it's real?
什么做的？银的？ What is this, silver?
银的，试试 'It's silver, but try the marker.'
像一支魔笔 It's like a magic marker.
好吧，那可没多少纸 Well, that's not much for paper.
哈哈哈哈 'Ha ha ha ha!'
看到了吗？ 'You see?'
太不可思议了 Shut my mouth wide open.
是一张不错的纸 'There's a proper piece of paper.'
不错的纸 Proper piece of paper.
那么我要郑重地写 So I'll do it etiquettely.
你能读一下吗？ 'Can you read that?'
一条漂亮的信息 A beautiful message.
有人会为你解读 Somebody can decipher that for you
告诉你那是什么意思 and tell you what it means.
你知道，你会失望的 You know, it will upset you.
没错，会生气的 That's right. You'll flip.
我是说，肯定会生气 I mean, flip for real.
你知道，气炸了 You know, over.
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对吗？ Isn't that right?
皇室成员来.. The royal family came to..
来拜访你的，你的，祖父 came to your..your, uh, grandfather
并且说，呃，所有那些祈求 and said, uh, all that begging.
还有你赠与他的所有的面包 And you laid all that bread on him
他才能够打败拿破仑 so he could beat Napoleon.
厉害吧 Ain't that a bitch?
尼卡：并且扔进苏伊士运河 [Nica] 'And threw in the Suez canal.'
那改变了，改变了世界 That changed..that changed the world.
劳斯：没有人为此背锅 [Rouse] 'Ain't nobody's fault around here.'
尼卡：那是在美国 [Nica] 'That was in Europe.'
这里是美国，我会告诉人们他们是谁 This is the United States. I'll tell people who you are.
她是亿万富翁 She's a billionaire.
你知道，罗斯查尔德家族 You know, the Rothschild.
她告诉我，她想以最糟糕的方式认识他 [Columby narrating] She told me that she wanted to meet him in the worst way.
我知道她非常需要他 I know that she needed him a lot.
她那么告诉我 She told me that..
她说她感受一种力量的源泉 She said that she would feel a source of strength.
她的背景很有趣 She had an interesting background.
一个女人..，怎么说... A woman of.. What was it..
在战时，与自由法国军队在一起 With the free French army
还有飞行的兰开斯特式轰炸机 and flew Lancaster bombers during the war
参加了戴高乐的抵抗军，像个反叛者 was in De Gaulle's resistance. Kind of a rebel.
但是奈丽从未把那段关系视作是威胁 But Nellie never saw in that relationship a threat.
有时候奈丽会感到释然 Sometimes Nellie may have felt relieved
塞隆尼斯遇到困难时，她会过来 she came around when Thelonious was a little difficult.
她在分担重负 She was splitting duties.
这不是事先计划好的，只是变成了那样 They didn't plan that. It just turned into that.
看到舌头了吗？ You see the tongue?
我觉得他有点问题 I think he had a problem.
塞隆尼斯，那是你的领地 Thelonious, that's your land
只要你放轻松，我觉得。 as you put it, very jauntily, I thought.
尼卡：我在1954年认识的塞隆尼斯 [Nica narrating] I didn't meet Thelonious until 1954.
飞去巴黎 Flew to Paris
到那儿的时候 and got there just in time
正好是他第1场海外音乐会 for his first overseas concert.
后来我去了后台 And I went backstage afterwards
玛丽·卢·威廉姆斯介绍我认识了他 and Mary Lou Williams introduced me to him.
我就是那样认识他的 That's how I met him.
我们一起去了舞会 But we hung out and had a ball.
他在那儿呆了大概一周 He was there about a week.
然后我就回纽约了 Then I came back to New York
几个月之后 a couple of months later.
那时候我住在斯坦霍普 I was then living in the Stanhope
乐手们回去那里 and all musicians used to come up there.
后来一个女孩在那儿死掉了，他们就把我赶了出来。 But after a bird died there, they threw me out.
你接午后场的演出吗？ Did you do the matinee?
星期天？ On Sunday?
- 不接吗？ - 嗯。 - No? - Mm-mmm.
不接，太多了 No. Too much.
后来我去了玻利瓦尔（位于纽约州 阿利根尼县） Then I went to the Bolivar.
我在那儿得到了我的钢琴 And that's when I got my piano.
塞隆尼斯和我一起搞到的 Thelonious and I got it together.
他就是在那儿写出了《Brilliant Corners》 That's where he wrote brilliant corners
我记得还有“Bolivar Balues Are” and "Bolivar Balues Are", I believe.
晚上我们回去俱乐部 At night we'd go out 'round the clubs
然后和所有的乐手一起回玻利瓦尔 then all musicians would come back with us to the Bolivar
我们会一起玩很棒的即兴 and we'd have these fantastic jam sessions
一直到第二天早上八九点钟 until 8:00 or 9:00 the next morning.
所以，自然的，最终惹了麻烦 So, of course, eventually that caused trouble
我被从那儿赶走了。 and I was thrown out of there.
然后我们决定要有自己的房子 Then we decided I'd get a house of my own.
于是我买了这座房子 And I got this house..
原先塞隆尼斯认为这里叫做“猫村” ...which was known at first by Thelonious as "Catville".
蒙克：嗨，大家好 [Monk narrating] Hi, everybody.
今天很高兴在这里 I'm very glad to be here today.
我打算演奏.. And I would like to play
不久前写的一小段音乐 a little tune I composed not so long ago
标题是"Pannonica" entitled "Pannonica".
我以这位美丽女士为其命名 It was named after this beautiful lady here.
我觉得她父亲给她起了这个名字 I think her father gave her that name..
..呃，在他试图捉住一只蝴蝶后 ...uh, after a butterfly that he tried to catch.
我觉得他最后没有捉到 I don't think he caught the butterfly.
总之，这就是我写的东西 But anyway, here's the number I composed
以她命名——"Pannonica" named after her. "Pannonica".
“[法语]非常感谢”，女士们，先生们 Merci beaucoup, ladies and gentlemen.
尼卡：谢谢，塞隆尼斯·蒙克 [Nica narrating]Thank you,Thelonious Monk.
和弦是什么？ What are the chords?
[playing notes]
降D？ 'D flat?'
嗯，对，降D。嗯。 Uh, yeah. D flat. Mm-hmm.
- G？ - D，降D。 - G? - D. D flat.
那就是说我的是降E。 That means my E flat.
什么降E？什么降D？ E flat what? D flat what?
呃，降D属7和弦。 Uh, D flat 7.
降D属7和弦。 D flat 7.
嗯，哈。 Uh-huh.
然后我在想这儿。 Then I'm thinking about right here.
G小调属7转到降D 'G minor 7 to D flat.'
没错 Yeah.
G小调属7 'G minor 7.'
G小调属7。A小调属7 'G minor 7. A minor 7.'
然后呢？转到降D 'To what? To D flat.'
那就是每个和弦2拍 That's two beats apiece.
对 Yeah.
之后下一个小节是.. And then the next bar is..
下半个小节是降G属7. The next half of the bar is G flat 7.
- 啥？ - 降D属7. - 'Huh?' - D flat 7?
降G，降G。 - 'G flat.' - 'G flat.'
降G G flat.
那就变成了“波波的生日”，第三版 This'll be "Boo Boo's Birthday", take three.
[piano music]
你想让我吹什么？我刚写了... What you want me to hit? I just wrote..
你想让我吹最高音吗？ You want me to hit the top note?
这里你要我吹什么？ What you want me to hit here?
你想要，呃，呃，C调？ You want me to hit, uh, uh, uh, C?
还是要一些不协和音？ Or are my notes contrary?
你想要什么？最高音？ What you want, the top notes?
什么都行，你像吹什么都可以 Hit any of them. Any notes you want.
随便我吹？ Any notes I want to?
你看，这儿的任何音 You know, any note that's here.
你都可以吹 You can hit any one of them.
我能吹 I can hit..
那么我能吹D调和C调？ I can hit D and C then, huh?
我吹最高音 I hit the top note.
当我..对，我吹这个，C调。 When I was.. Yeah, I hit this note, C.
但是这里有两个音 But here it's two notes.
要么是升C，要么是C It's either a C sharp or a C natural.
啊哈，对，啊哈。 Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh.
哪个？ Either one of those?
对，啊哈。 Yeah. Uh-huh.
[humming]
升F属7，B调减7，降B F sharp 7, B-7, B flat.
♪ De dum de-duh de-duh ♪
降A，降A，G调 A flat, A flat, G.
现在保持在这个音阶上。 Now hold on scale there.
保持在这个音阶上。 A hold on scale there?
然后是一个降A属7和弦。 Then an A flat 7.
哦？OK Oh? Okay.
降A属7。然后他用降D来收尾。 A flat 7. Then he ends it in D flat.
♪ De dum de dum ♪
就是这样。他差不多就是那么做的。 That's it. He does something like that.
[humming]
[piano music]
[music continues]
天呐，那非常难说... Gee, that's very hard to say about..
因为他...那时我和他在一起 Because he was..The time I was with him
在离开前的一段时间。 just before.. prior to leaving..
他非常投入 he was right into it.
我从未想过他会突然停下来不再演奏 I never thought that he would stop suddenly and don't play.
但是事情发生了。 But something happened.
有什么东西击中了他 Something really clicked in him
他再也不想弹琴了。 and he didn't want to play anymore.
我问过他几次 I've asked him several times
他从不解释。 and he never gave any reason.
他说：“我就是不想再弹琴了。” He said, "I just don't feel like playing no more."
那无论是什么，都压垮了他 Whatever ailed him just overwhelmed him
他非常消沉，我觉得那不是愤怒 and he just withdrew. I don't think it was an anger
或者..无关音乐。 or a...about music.
它和音乐没有关系。 It had nothing to do with music.
是他自己，他的精力，他的观点，他的生活。 It was him and his energy and his outlook and his life.
唯独不是关乎音乐，比如“我总是不得要领”之类 Nothing to do with music like "I haven't got it anymore."
我知道不是那样的。我虽然不能知其所想， I know it wasn't that. I'm not in his brain
但是绝对不可能是因为音乐方面的原因。 but that could never have been what it was.
[instrumental music]
尼卡：我们从纽约开车回家。 [Nica narrating] We were driving home from New York.
那是他住在这里的第一年，1972年。 This was the first year he lived here. 1972.
他突然对我说： He suddenly turned to me and said
“我得了重病” "I am very seriously ill."
这是唯一一次 This is the only thing
塞隆尼斯诉说自己的疾病 Thelonious was ever heard to say about being ill.
之后他再未提过。 He never said it again.
[mellow music]
[music continues]
塞隆尼斯与1982年2月17日去世。 [Columby narrating] Thelonious died on February 17, 1982.
他得了脑溢血 He had a cerebral hemorrhage
昏迷了12天。 and he was in a coma for 12 days.
然后安静地在睡眠中离世了。 And he passed away very quietly in his sleep.
最后和他在一起的人是奈丽。 And the last person with him was Nellie.
[saxophone music]
[music continues]
[playing "Sweetheart Of All My Dreams"]
[music continues]
[applause]
[instrumental music]
[music continues]